an anecdote           
                                          
 today it rained,  and i would go outside 
 i thought,  so i  smoked a pipe  and got 
 dressed,   and  outside  the  rain   had 
 turned  into snow so  thick that it  was 
 as  dense fog ... and then i went to get 
 the  mail, but  there was a woman and we 
 talked a little. now because i was  high 
 and it was  snowing  so funny and  i had 
 an umbrella against the  snow,  but snow 
 all over  my face anyway, and i wondered 
         about myself, and my life